This thesis follows the evolution of the labor movement in Chile, from the Popular Unity government of Salvador Allende in 1970 through the first Concertación government of Patricio Aylwin till 1994. Taking the labor movement as a case study, this thesis illustrate the twin impacts of authoritarianism and neoliberalism on left-wing politics and movement building in Chile. It argues that by crippling trade unions and the labor movement, these dual forces have led to an atrophied form of democracy, hollowed out the institutions of representation in the state and civil society, and profoundly transformed the political subjectivity of working people
Toby Posel (Wed,) studied this question.